Lies, damn lies and job interviews

Don’t we tell youngsters to say whatever they have to, within reason, to get the job?

“Money doesn’t matter to me.”

“Of course, I’ll work all weekends and holidays and never complain.”

“To me there would be no difference in working the register, dropping French fries or cleaning out grease traps and taking out the trash all day. I just want to work.”

So, as with much coachspeak that silly fans are wont to listen to, you shouldn’t pay much attention to what Astros’ job interviewees are saying as they parade through Minute Maid Park trying to claim one of the toughest jobs in country to get.

Ned Yost says the Astros are one starter away from having a really good staff. Yes, he sounds clueless.

But what do you think would happen if Yost told Drayton McLane and Ed Wade that to have a “really good staff” the Astros need TWO legitimate starters? (And we’re not talking about a couple of No. 6 or 7 starters like Mike Hampton and Russ Ortiz.)

Well, Yost almost certainly didn’t want to find out.

There are only 30 of these jobs. Why risk blow it by saying too much of the truth?

Remember when Gary Kubiak and every other coach who interviewed for the Texans job in 2006 told Bob McNair that David Carr could lead the team to the Super Bowl? (And please feel free to ignore the so-called myth-busting on that subject by some who can’t handle the truth, even when it isn’t that big of a deal.)

A journalist saying that about Carr makes him or her a really poor judge of what it takes to lead a team to a Super Bowl. Though I don’t really believe McNair made love of Carr a stipulation for getting hired, a coach trying to get a job saying that, might have been smart.

Now is it possible that Kubiak really thought he could fix Carr? Of course. It’s also possible that he was saying what he thought he needed to say to get the job.

You think Jeff Van Gundy told Les Alexander what he really thought of Steve Francis when he interviewed?

The truth can keep you from getting hired.

“I don’t mind being on fries, but everybody knows the real money is made at the register, and I want to get paid.”

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On a side note, seems every time Carr’s name comes up, whatever the context, some rush to his defense. These people are an odd bunch.

Now they’re saying Carr could very well go to a Super Bowl this year with the Giants, proving that he could lead a team to a Super Bowl, so perhaps his absolute, unquestioned (by anyone with sense) failure as a quarterback with the Texans somehow wasn’t his fault. Hilarious.

Can’t you people just accept it that this guy couldn’t play and let it go? He will always be the butt of jokes in these parts. Fear is a particularly bad emotion for a quarterback.

If Eli Manning goes and stays down, I’d put more money on the Texans going to the Super Bowl than the Giants.

Listen, I understand that the Texans aren’ the most talented team in the league. (Kubiak is largely responsible.)

The weaker your team is, the better your coach needs to be. Teams with less talent than these Texans have made the playoffs.

Unless you are a bottom feeder franchise, if your team doesn’t have a top-10 coach and a top-10 quarterback, it ought to be looking for them. If you go five years with a coach and quarterback who aren’t in the top 10, you’re just wasting time.

The Texans wasted five years with a quarterback who wasn’t in the top 30. In my mind they now have a top-10 QB.

As for whether they have a top-10 coach … he has 11 games to get into the discussion.

Uh, I’m not at all happy about that. And neither are most Big 12 basketball fans (and coaches).

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Speaking of broadcasting developments that I’m not happy about …

I did a good job dodging it, thanks to a busy schedule that didn’t include time to worry about some rich guy not being able to join some other rich guys in their rich guy club, but I’m still getting e-mail from people asking me my opinion on Rush Limbaugh.

Stop it.

I don’t understand why people got all caught up in this ridiculous story anyway. I wasn’t for or against Rush Limbaugh buying into an NFL team. It’s his money.

And it’s the NFL owners’ private club, so if they choose not to let a guy in (which they were probably going to do) because he is too divisive and controversial, they certainly have that right.

Now I would rather weigh in on what the blubbering Limbaugh did Saturday afternoon. OK, he didn’t do it, but he was in on it.

I was rolling down I-10 to Baton Rouge listening to my UH Cougars battle to overtake Mississippi State, when the Cougars made a big play to move inside the Bulldogs’ 10-yard line.

“Uh oh,” Tom Franklin tells me, there might be a penalty. “Uh oh,” is right, because all of a sudden I’m no longer listening to Franklin’s dulcet bass and Ted Pardee’s rambling, unabashed homerism.

Instead, I’m bumping the Limbaugh theme song.

While that cut has a nice beat to it – arguably better than a couple of the songs U2 screamed at me last night at Reliant Stadium – that was quite the inappropriate time for the UH affiliate in Beaumont to switch to Limbaugh’s weekly wrap show.

After a particularly long version of the song, Limbaugh’s weekly highlights began.

It was just fat wrong.

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Since we’re on Limbaugh, the most ridiculous thing I heard about his race-baiting words is that they are usually just him being funny. You know, like Richard Pryor.

Limbaugh is not and never should be compared to Pryor, one of the great comedic minds in our country’s history. Well, I guess they both had issues with drug use, but that’s about it.

Plus, it was a weak argument in this case because NFL owners wouldn’t let Pryor buy into a team either, dead or alive.

I’ve talked to a lot of owners, and not one of them has sounded like Limbaugh or Pryor.

Now I wish there were a Richard Pryor-type owner in the league. Could you imagine him breaking down one of the Texans’ pitiful performances? That would be entertaining.

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The outrage should be directed at Sheila Jackson Lee, for standing on the floor of the House of Representatives berating a private citizen and blathering about what he should be allowed to spend his money on, just because she doesn’t agree on what this citizen says or thinks!!!!!! Then she has the gall to accuse him of being divisive while embracing Sharpton and Jackson?…Pathetic.

JS, you are really sticking by that Schaub top 10 quarterback statement?

Matt can put up good numbers, but he isn’t a top tier quarterback. We have much bigger problems than him, but he isn’t beyond his criticism.

He floats way too many passes and too many of his balls are either over thrown on short routes or under thrown on long routes. It is rare that I ever see him hit a receiver in stride. The more I watch him the more impressed I am with the receivers. It is more often that I feel a receiver has made a great play to catch a ball than it is that I feel as though he made a great throw to a receiver in coverage.

Not only that but he still makes bad decisions with the ball. You are going for it on 4th, your check down man is wide open pass the marker, and you have Andre in double coverage in the end zone. Why not take the first down? Why chunk the ball out of reach of everyone? There are times that he makes some throws that just leaves you scratching your head. Oh, and those times happen on almost every drive.

He also takes so long to run through his progressions. There are many times that there wouldn’t be pressure on him if he just ran through his progressions faster. There have been sacks taken that shouldn’t have happened and there have been times he has scrambled that he wouldn’t have had too if he just hit his check down man a half second earlier.

I’d take Peyton, Brady, Rivers, Big Ben, Brees, McNabb, Rodgers, Matt Ryan, Flaco, Warner, or Eli ahead of Matt. As much as I don’t like Favre he is a better quarterback then Schaub as of right now. All the guys I mentioned either have the ability to manage a game better than Schaub or they have shown they have the ability to win a game with their arm. Schaub continues to make bad decisions in crucial points in games and hasn’t really shown that he can go out and win a game with his arm. You can argue stats and numbers and all the other stuff that doesn’t matter, but at the end of the day how often do you feel that Matt did something spectacular that only one of the top quarterbacks in the league could pull off? Could he have led that game winning drive that Ben led in the Super Bowl? Last game they showed Schaub’s QB rating under pressure was something like 39. He doesn’t escape the pocket well and when teams bring heat he usually gets sacked or makes a bad throw. The best teams bring heat. Schaub hasn’t shown he can handle it.

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Yes, he’s in my top 10. That doesn’t make him top tier. He is in the next group. And as I wrote, he’s at least in the discussion, which means looking for a replacement is not a good use of resources. As you said, there are bigger issues. But there are issues with other top 10 QBs too, people just don’t study that very well. Love to hate on their own.

Schaub certainly seems like a top-10 QB. Maybe I’ve been watching some other games, but I don’t see Schaub “floating passes all of the time” or overthrow/underthrow frequently. I saw him float one for a horrible pick-6 last week. He looked “off” in the 1st game of the season.

Overall, however, I think that he’s shown that he can make good passes and decisions…

Not sure who the hell told you that they said the Giants going to the Superbowl proves Carr could lead them to it. I watched the Giants game this past weekend, and I heard something completely different. The announcers had interviewed Carr before the game and he mentioned he could be a starter for many other teams this year. They agreed. They also stated that they do not see Carr leading a team to the Superbowl, but that they feel he could be a starter in this league. BIG DIFFERENCE!! How many starters can you say that about in this league now?

Even though I do not prescribe to the belief Carr was the issue with the Texans, I do agree that at this point, Carr could be a starter, but not one that would lead a team to the Superbowl. Maybe a couple years on a good team that doesn’t allow him to get sacked over 70 times, that might change. Who knows? I can say in the time I have watched Carr on the Giants, he has improved. He also has this one attribute that Schaub severely lacks….scramble.

Funny thing is I know a lot of Giants fans and they are happy to have Carr on the team as a b/u. Notice I said b/u. Can we say the same about OUR b/u’s?

But then again, the only reason I keep tabs on Carr is that I see him play twice a year up here, and half my family are Giants fans.

The Rush thing was ridiculous. I cringed when Sharpton got involved, because I thought this was the one safe haven from all that crap.

Pryor would never have made fun of the Texans. Why? Too easy. It would be like a one-legged Irish midget walking into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. Where do you start?

“I’m a real people-person” – Translated: I like to screw off and talk to people instead of getting my work done.

“I guess my biggest flaw is that I’m a perfectionist” – Translated: I don’t get my work done on time so will always say that I’m just trying to get it right but don’t have the time.

“My ultimate goal is to move up in management and some day be CEO” – Translated: I’d like to get out of having to do work as quickly as possible by moving up the ladder. It seems that they guys at the top get to just tell everyone else what to do.

“My strength is communication” – Translation: I like hang out in the break room and make idle chat.

Hey, come on guys. SJL would run down the middle of Westheimer in her undies if she thought it would get her publicity. Who knows what she really thinks. She’s a pollitition first and a human being 2nd.

As far as Shaub being a top 10 QB…uh, no, he’s not, in my opinion, King. He’s right in there with Palmer, Hasselback and Romo. The ability’s there but something is lacking somewhere.

Mark Cuban financed two films, one called ” Redacted” which portrayed American soldiers in Iraq as blood thirsty mad men and another, a so-called documentary narrated by Charlie Sheen that claimed George Bush took down the NY City Trade Towers. Not a peep from anybody. After all, Mark was just exercising his right of free speech, What’s the problem? But Limbaugh puts forth what he felt was an honest assessment of D. McNabb and the media, and he is called a crazy right wing racist unfit to own anything which might employ services/talents of non-whites. He gets berated on the floor of the Congress (again) and is treated like some sort of public enemy unfit to invest in the sacred NFL which openly embraced the likes of Ray Lewis, Pacman Jones, Tank Johnson, Leon Lett, Ryan Leaf, OJ Simpson, Mark Tunei,and Art Schleister to name but a few of the nefarious characters. Certainly Rush would be unfit to walk among the greats like Bud Adams, Bob Irsay, Al Davis and Art Modell who pulled their teams out of supportive communities, one in the dead of night, to move to greener pastures. And while we are on the notion of this great NFL purity, when is somebody in journalism going to do their job and start investigating the joined at the hip relationship between this sport and professional gambling? What other sport requires its teams to list the relative health status of players for the following game? What’s up with that? Couldn’t have anything to do with setting those odds now, would it? And King, I normally side with your opinions on most entries but here I must disagree. The drug use line comparing Rush and Richard Prior was beneath your usually high standards.

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Each had problems with illegal drug use. That’s sad, not some political commentary. And on the surface it is about the only thing that the two have in common. Not anything near a cheap shot. … Most of the people on the list you ran of people embraced by the NFL, would not be allowed to be owners either. And Marc Cuban wasn’t seen to be fit to be an MLB owner. … There is nothing to investigate about the NFL and gambling. It has all been written before. That is why the game is so popular. … Try as people might, the Rush thing isn’t especially about politics or race, it is about money. Rush wouldn’t make the NFL any more money, and he might cost it some. If Cuban’s financing of films cost Les Alexander and the rest of the league’s owners money, you would have heard a peep. You know sports is business not politics, unless politics hurt business.

Every time I read a story of the Houston Chronicle bunch it becomes apparent to me why so many people who love the NFL would rather read what Stephanie Stradley writes. Why ? Stephanie sticks to mainly the level of play from the players which is really what these blogs should be about. The Chronicle group mostly has people who understand the game wondering how little this group really grasps at all. Why are you still sowing sour grapes about David Carr? You, John McClain and other self appointed know it alls can’t let go of David Carr. The game of football has never been about any one player and never will be. As for Carr, I am one of those who think we should have never used the first overall pick on a QB in our first draft. The Houston Texans banked that Boselli and a few retreads could protect their investment and we all know how that turned out. The Houston Texan’s destroyed David Carr and Gary Kubiak did not have a clue how to work with him years later. How is it that a recent World Champion team thinks Carr is still capable? The Texan’s 8 years later still do not have an offensive or defensive line and it is just a matter of when that Schaub goes down and out for the season. You and the rest of the Chronicle bunch would entertain others a lot more by writing more about the Texan’s current roster and not digging up former players. David Carr is on a real team with people making sound decisions about the future. Jerome, why not do a piece on why we drafted Conner Barwin with a high draft pick only to sit on the bench 80 percent of the game when we needed more big bodies on both sides of the line? Why not do a story of how we drafted Caldwell who most fans think should have been handed a starting center or guard position, then having him sit on the bench? Why not do a story of how Kubiak drafted a LB with the 15th overall pick who has a host of injury issues when other players were on the board who did not? David Carr has moved on but we still have to trash him when there are so many holes to fill on this roster. At least you don’t discriminate by only bashing David Carr in that you had to take a swing at Rush Limbaugh. Let me get this straight, you and others want Rush denied from making a purchase because he is opionated? What do you and John McClain call your line of proffesion?

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You read somewhere that I want Rush denied from making a purchase of an NFL team because he is opiniated? Wow. Please send that to me. Like Rush, there must be people out there lying about what I have written. It’s that darn conspicacy against smart, good-looking people. We’re always fasely accused of being ugly. … On the Carr thing, it was a joke. There will always be Carr jokes, just as there will always be ones about the priest, rabbi and baptist minister who walked into a bar. If that priest, rabbi and reverend never walked into that bar we wouldn’t have those jokes. Similarly, if David Carr didn’t suck …

SHunter – “Schaub certainly seems like a top-10 QB. Maybe I’ve been watching some other games, but I don’t see Schaub “floating passes all of the time” or overthrow/underthrow frequently. I saw him float one for a horrible pick-6 last week. He looked “off” in the 1st game of the season.”

When you watch the game this Sunday look for it. On passes over about 10-15 yards the receivers will break stride and come to a jog to catch the pass or they will come to a complete stop. I watch football, so I’m not talking about curl routes or anything like that, I do know the difference.

If you watched the preseason you could see the huge contrast in the passes from Matt and Dan. Dan has a strong arm but lacks touch. But the top tier quarterbacks have a zip to their passes. The ball gets there fast. Matt’s passes don’t have that, they float. During this pass game his throws in the first half to his right were really floating on him more than normal. He threw a few that went right over the head of open receivers. Basically the same route that he threw the pick 6 on with the game on the line. Hell the most obvious one was his pass to the back of the end zone to tie the game. Those are the type of plays that top tier quarterbacks can complete.

You say he makes good decisions with the ball, but over his career he has thrown 40 touchdowns and 29 interceptions. He has done a lot better this year (a contract year) going 10 to 4 so far. The only team that hasn’t picked him off this year is the Titans who are still 0fer. Part of the blame goes to Gary for trying to force the run and putting him in bad situations at times, but he still needs to make better decisions with the ball. You can’t throw a pick a game when you are playing the soft part of your schedule and be considered top third in the league.

Look, I think a good coach could win with Matt. They could do better, but there are worse quarterbacks. For me he is a middle of the pack quarterback. He isn’t a guy that is going to go out and win you games, but you can win with him at the helm. That is better than having a quarterback that will go out and lose you games. But calling Matt a top 10 quarterback is a stretch to me. The copter incident aside, Sage was just as effective running this offense as Matt has shown to be. Sage isn’t a top 10 quarterback.

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I wasn’t sure if you were giving other quarterbacks at or near the top 10 too much credit (they’re not that good) or coming down too hard on Schaub. Then you almost said Schaub and Rosenfels are equal, except for one play. Now I have my answer. It’s a little bit of the first and a whole lot of the second. lol

“But the top tier quarterbacks have a zip to their passes. The ball gets there fast. Matt’s passes don’t have that, they float.”

-J. Russell (#1 QB in the league)

Matt’s pass velocity isn’t in the top-10, but it’s good enough to keep him as a top-10 QB. I’m sure that at least 3 or 4 of the top-10 “zippers” in the league are backups, which is where JaMarcus should be until he can add some touch/accuracy to his throws and until his receivers learn how to catch such blistering passes…

Okay..where to begin? First, there is nothing to investigate in a possible link between the NFL and gambling? Have you seen some of the ridiculous calls from virtually unknown back judges, umpires, and line judges that affect the spread? ” We have holding on the offense”, called for the first time late in a game where a field goal to change the over-under..Hmmm, but that is above suspicion because the NFL would never allow it. Give me a break.. Okay, call me a conspiracy theorist but I’m not the NBA owning kook who financed a film about a sitting President killing 3000 Americans to start a war against Muslims. As for the rouge’s gallery of NFL players and former players I listed, the intent was to show the league has a dichotomous reputation that includes multiply convicted felons and that any implication by Rush’s opponents that his ownership would somehow smear the league is absurd on premise. I also listed a group of greed mongers, including Bud Adams who deserted loyal fan bases for business reasons. Okay, if it’s a business, then why the stink when Rush makes a business decision to invest in an NFL franchise? Your certainty that the league would somehow lose revenue if Rush had an interest is unproveable. I think Goodell and the Checkett’s owners group cratered to the incessant chirping of social parasites like Al Sharpton and took the easy way out. Whatever. His ownership doesn’t impact me because whether Rush owned an NFL team or not, the Houston Texans would still suck. By the way, I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh and don’t necessarily subscribe to all his political theories. I am just a citizen concerned that free speech is being punished by elements within our society that have appointed themselves arbitrators of what type of speech and politcal opinions are acceptable without reproach from sitting members of the US Congress. I recall the liberal hue and cry when Sen. Prescott Bush of Conn. used the Senate floor to speak out against playwright Edward Albee and his work ” Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf” as being unfit for public

exhibition. We all know how that turned out. And Rep. Senator Joe McCarthy will forever be lambasted for using his office to go after citizens whose associations, speechs, and theories he felt were anti-American. What the Congress is doing to Limbaugh right now is equally as scary and equally as wrong. As for Richard Pryor, he was once the funniest man alive and I miss him. We could all use a good laugh right now.

Fat…Drug addict…racist. Is that all you and your bretheren in the media can muster? What “race-bating” words are you refering to? The so-called quotes that all media outlets are now apologizing for repeating (conveniently AFTER they had successfully burned Mr. Limbaugh and ruined any chance he had at NFL ownership)? Are you talking about the much ballyhooed song parody that he created about The One even though thLimbaoughat was a quote taken from a journalist in LA? Unless you’re being dishonest with yourself and attributing the song parody quote solely to Limbaugh, I assume you could only be refering to his “bloods and crips” quote.

I don’t think any of that is why people didn’t want Rush to own a team or why you didn’t want him to own a team even though you say you didn’t care. He’s an unlikable character to be sure. I’m not a Limbaugh fan. Never have been. But that doesn’t mean I have to be against him spending his money how he wants to spend it. You don’t like him owning the Rams, don’t go to a game. It’s as simple as that.

My question to you is, how far are you willing to go to take down someone you don’t like? Everyone does it. Everyone complains about it when it happens to “their” guy but none of you have the sack to stand up and oppose it when it happens to someone else’s guy.

A real King would have enough courage to stand up for what is right. Your crown must have been inherited and not earned.

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If you don’t know race-baiting words when you hear them, I can’t help you. And if you don’t understand my words, but choose make up your own reality based on that ignorance, I can’t help you.

Many of you are missing the point. Sheila Jackson Lee’s and Al Sharpton’s idiocy are not why Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the group of investors making an offer on the Rams. There was no liberal conspiracy to keep him out of the league. It is much simpler than that. It is business. The NFL Owners, the vast majority of whom are republican, were concerned that Limbaugh as owner would alienate fans. I am sure they would have the same concern if Michael Moore wanted to buy a team. If you are running a business, why would you want to involve someone who is going to alienate some of your customers? Politics and sales do not mix very well. Also, this is not a free speech issue. The GOVERNMENT (state or federal), subject to certain exceptions, cannot restrict our right to free speech. Private entities and associations (such as the NFL) certainly can. One final thought, it may seem to be a contradiction to allow Vick, Lewis, and others accused and convicted of heinous crimes to play in the NFL while excluding potential owners deemed to divisive. However, it is again based on money. Limbaugh would not make the league additional profit. Lewis, Vick, and other stars with checkered pasts apparently do. It is ironic that it is the free market that caused Limbaugh to get booted from the investor group.

Wonder what a Limbaugh NFL team would look like???…….would he make them all be right handed?….would he let a left footed kicker be on the team…..these are the things I was so looking forward to find out about……Would he let a player wear long hair????….Now I will never know………and it is all because of the liberal media……….stop it liberal media!!!!!!…..I want to know these things…

Actually Kubiak was the ONLY coaching candidate who said to stick with Carr -and it is the main reason he got the job.

I sat next to Sheila Jackson Lee on a flight to DC last Monday afternoon. In first class – glad our tax dollars pay for that not to mention Congress was in session Monday which she missed. SHe was easily the rudest person I have ever sat next to on a plane. Twice she pulled the “do you know who I am” card on the flight attendant s she demanded to keep multiple bags at her feet before takeoff and then again when she demanded the attendant take the bags down for her.

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“Every coach we talked to, the question was, `Do you think David is the type of player that can take us to the Super Bowl? Every one of them said yes.'” … Bob McNair after interviewing candidates in 2006.

Just wondering here for the fun of it. Do you think it might be a good idea for the giants to trade David Carr to Oakland? I don’t think it can get any worse than JaMarcus Russell, so as sad as it sounds, Carr would be a step up for them in the QB department. Oakland might not be scary if Carr was the QB, but when teams look forward to the Raiders for the easy win, it probably can’t get any worse.

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David Carr is terrible. You can’t win with him. … I’d start him ahead of JaMarcus Russell.

Everyone that’s talking about how many fans Rush would alienate are out of their minds. He would be the NFL’s biggest proponent – with 20 MILLION listeners a week.

Think of the buzz he would have created. But no, in Obama’s America we can’t have a conservative hold an influential position. That would be BAD for the political agenda.

King, have you ever truly listened to his radio program? I don’t believe so. If you had, you would grasp the fact that he backs up MLK’s belief that we should have a colorblind society – not one that gives preferential treatment to anyone based on their ethnicity.

But that’s OK, I understand in this day and age MLK’s views are regarded as “quaint” and “outdated”. You guys have a bigger political agenda to accomplish, so lets not let the facts get in the way, OK?

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The NFL doesn’t need buzz. You really think people who are not NFL fans now would become NFL fans just because Limbaugh was a part owner? Now, if Yao Ming became an owner, the league might realize a boost in new fans. … And yes, I’ve listened to his program, lots. Used to listen to it daily. What does that have to do with anything? And since you brought it up, no, I’ve never heard Rush and thought, “Man, he sounds like Martin Luther King, Jr.” But that doesn’t make him a bad person or in my mind ineligible of being an NFL owner.

Come on man stop it, don’t defend yourself. The line you used about drugs ,Rush & Richard was really a sorry shot but hey that is how you are. Your problem is you don’t listen to Rush and therefore you know nothing about what he is about. I think Rush had some pain pills and Richard was smoking cocaine, can you say crackhead. Big difference Solomon. So i think your shot really made Richard look bad not Rush. Come on man even you can do better than this.

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One alcoholic drinks beer, another drinks wine and another drinks hard liquor … yeah big difference. Clearly you’re a person who thinks being addicted to drugs makes one a horrible person. I don’t.

Matt Schaub is a top 10 QB, no question about it. to say otherwise is not based in reality this season. The numbers don’t lie:

QB rating – 9th

TDs – 2nd

Yards/Game – 5th

CompPct – 14th

20yds+ plays – 3rd

40yds+ plays – 2nd

He has had only 1 poor game this season, against the Jets and he was playing on a bad ankle. Joe Montana didn’t have much jip on his balls either, so a strong arm is overrated as a measure for how good a QB can be.

I usually prefer to keep politics out of sports. The NFL is free to reject Rush, or anyone else, if they so desire, I have no problem with that. The problem is the media making up quotes to cast him as a racist, and then not begging for his pardon when caught in their lies. But the media does this to conservatives routinely.

That’s 13 QB’s better than him right there. And maybe Sanchez,Hasselback, and Flaco are better too.

Sorry King, he’s not a top 10. And too many others have more potential than him. I was all bragging about Schaub before the season, and find myself pulling for him every game, but he only has the ability to come through half the time. To say he’s top 10 is saying the QB play in this league has gone waaay down.

Jerome, I am in shock. I have read your columns for years & have never encountered any race related, bias or race baited writings. Now, for the first time, I have scrolled to the top & noticed your photo. OMG, your black! I must re-evaluate my entire thought process regarding this blog. Please pardon me while I gather my thoughts. Thank you for your patience. Signed, An old white guy.

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lol … I don’t know what’s wrong with you. Some people – old white guys, young black guys and middle-aged Latinos – just read my picture and not any of the words I write.